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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Mendoza in Argentina

Posted by admin on May 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.9558S, -69.0181WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mendoza in Argentina. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.47 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us10005iln. Event ids that are associated: us10005iln. Exact location, longitude -69.0181° West, latitude -32.9558° South, depth = 35.47 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:32:45 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/05/16 / 2016-05-19 04:32:45 / May 19, 2016 @ 4:32 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Martín, Mendoza. The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Mendoza (c. 876 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Martín (c. 82 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km WSW of Mendoza, Argentina. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.0181° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.9558° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WSW of Mendoza, Argentina Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-19 04:32:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-19 21:03:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 180 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.14 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005iln Id of event.
Event Code 10005iln An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005iln, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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